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United States

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Wireless Network Engineer responsible for design, testing, and implementation of wireless networks.

Contract Employee to General Dynamics on the USCIS/TOMIS Contract.Ensure users are connected and functioning with all necessary access to the tools and services they are cleared to utilize for US Citizenship and Immigration Services.Monitor and proactively troubleshoot, notify, escalate, and repair the USCIS global network.Assist, verify configurations, and accept new and upgraded network equipment.Scan and remediate all network, server, and workstation installations for compliance to DHS security standards.Monitor, research, document, escalate and remediate all security events and incidents on the USCIS network.

Network Telephony Administrator supporting the Avago Technologies Inc. Integrated chip manufacturing facility in Ft. Collins Colorado.Ensure that employee workstations, servers, and fabrication equipment was connected and functioning with all necessary services and access to the Avago Technologies global network.Ensured phone services were available for all employees and locations throughout the fabrication facilities.Troubleshoot, install, connect, and configure routers switches and load balancers on the local area network.

Monitor and troubleshoot the network for Avis Budget Car rental group, Realogy Inc., Remainco, Inc., Wyndham World Wide.Responsible for a global network of over 10,000 routers andswitches and over 100 firewalls used in both subscriber, vendor, and corporate networks. Duties include troubleshooting on CISCO, Bay, Nortel and F5 network devices, Nokia and Pix Firewalls, used for web, subscriber, and vendor connectivity. Troubleshooting requires set up and running of sniffers on the IP network. Additional Duties include maintenance, monitoring,troubleshooting, and loading of the IBM Proprietary SNA Networkand 3270 access and LU 6.2 connectivity to Avis Budgetmainframes. Avis Budget network utilizes Windows 2000 servers runningMicrosoft’s SNA Manager Software for Multi-Link Gateways (MLG)into their mainframe. Responsibilities include troubleshooting connections into the MLG,cycling processes, and cycling logical control units in themainframe to restore connectivity from the MLG to the host MVSprocessor.Also responsible for the 3745 Front End Processors (FEP) on theAvis Budget network and troubleshooting and maintenance. Responsibilities include bringing up the network and reloading theFEPs after mainframe outages and maintenance.Numerous other responsibilities on the Avis Budget network include troubleshooting and maintenance of AIX, Linux, Windows 2000 and XP servers running various applications utilized by corporate users and subscribers.

Monitor and troubleshoot the network for Travelport Inc. which runs the Global Distribution Systems for Apollo and Galileo cores. The Apollo core and network host the customer reservations systems for United Airlines.Included was the monitoring, analyzing, and troubleshooting of the Cendant Corporation business units and their associated networks.Responsible for a global network of over 10,000 routers and switches and over 100 firewalls used in both subscriber, vendor, and corporate networks.Duties include troubleshooting on CISCO, Bay, Nortel and F5 network devices, Nokia and Pix Firewalls, used for web, subscriber, and vendor connectivity. 3754 Terminal Access to mainframes, LU's and VTAMS. Troubleshooting requires set up and running of sniffers on the IP network and link application maintenance on a Local Computer Network (LCN) of AIX Unix Link Nodes and Authentication Servers, connected to the core complexes of Apollo and Galileo running Transaction Processing Format (TPF) OS. As well as 3745 Terminal access for Avis Budget locations and equipment.Skills obtained were incredibly complex, proprietary, and varied across numerous platforms.This demonstrates my ability to adapt to, run, repair, and fix any system being used in any environment.

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